Renate Heuer

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Renate Heuer (born January 12, 1928 in Lüneburg ; † April 2, 2014 ) was a German specialist in German . She was a lecturer for German-Jewish literature at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Career

Renate Heuer attended the Wilhelm Raabe High School in Lüneburg from 1938 to 1947 . She received her doctorate in 1955 from the University of Cologne with a dissertation on Wilhelm Raabe for Dr. phil.

In 1983, Heuer founded the Bibliographia Judaica eV archive, which she directed until 2014, with the aim of recording the Jewish contribution to German cultural history from 1750 to the present day. The genealogical-biographical card index and the bibliographic index currently comprise over 45,000 authors. She had taken over the Bibliographia Judaica project from the Israeli poet Elazar Benyoëtz , who came to Berlin in 1963 to start research.

This year she was the editor of the Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors , published between 1992 and 2012, as well as of the Campus Judaica series, which has been published by Campus Verlag since 1995 , with which the Jewish contribution to German intellectual and cultural history is documented in individual presentations. This series had grown to 27 volumes by 2011. Furthermore, a microfiche - "Documentation on Jewish Culture in Germany 1840–1940", which was fanned out into several subdivisions , was created and published by KG Saur Verlag. From 1981 to 1996 the directory of Jewish authors in the German language, "Bibliographia Judaica", was edited by her. On the publication of the “Bibliographia” Benyoëtz wrote: “It is thanks to Renate Heuer, whose life's work has become the Bibliographia Judaica , that it can now be published in its 16 volumes by Saur Verlag in Munich . It is at the same time the greatest monument that a German has erected on her own responsibility, using her best years of life, to the perished German Jewry. "

On October 4, 2007, the 17th anniversary of German unification , she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class .

Publications

  • 1955: Individuality and generality with Wilhelm Raabe , Diss. Univ. Cologne
  • 2000: Helene Adolf: Viennese - Emigrant - Professor of German . Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York, CY. ISBN 3-593-36457-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Frankfurter Rundschau of April 12, 2014 (accessed April 13, 2014). Print version p. 39
  2. Homepage of the Bibliographia Judaica eV archive ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / user.uni-frankfurt.de
  3. Directory of the Campus-Verlag ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.campus.de
  4. Elazar Benyoëtz , Allerwegsdahin. My way as a Jew and Israeli into German , Zurich / Hamburg 2001, p. 64.
  5. Press release Uni-Frankfurt